I've set up a subdomain lists.mydomain.deĀ (and with regex expressions
as local part, to have unique email address per list, forgot to do that
here...) with soft spf and dmarc policies and that I only use for
mailing lists. Then I can use hard failure spf and dkim policies for
the domain mydomain.de itself.

Robert

Am Freitag, dem 14.07.2023 um 19:28 -0500 schrieb Thomas Cameron:
> This kinda raises an important issue. I already have SPF/DMARC/DKIM
> set 
> up. But because I use several mailing lists, I do not have a hard
> fail 
> set up. I get SO many notices when I send email to lists that I'm
> really 
> worried about defining hard failures/rejections.
> 
> But I'll play around with what you suggested.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On 7/14/23 18:58, David B Funk wrote:
> > 
> > Assuming you own/manage your infrastructure it should be 
> > straight-forward.
> > 
> > Create SFP records for your domain & SMTP server, set them to
> > either 
> > soft or hard fail mode.
> > If you can, also set up DKIM signing of your outgoing mail.
> > 
> > Then create rules that looks for your from address in a message and
> > a 
> > meta which says "if from me & DKIM-fail/SPF-fail hit it hard"
> > 
> > If you can work with the SPF hard fail you will also help to
> > improve 
> > your net reputation as spammers will have a harder time trying to
> > "Joe 
> > Job" you.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > 
> > > All -
> > > 
> > > I am suddenly getting hammered by a BUNCH of spam that appears to
> > > be 
> > > from me. It scores low, and even though I keep feeding it to
> > > Bayes, 
> > > it's still not hitting the threshold to be marked as spam.
> > > 
> > > When I check the headers, it's coming from multiple random email 
> > > servers, but many appear to originate from hotmail/outlook.com.
> > > So 
> > > from outlook.com, through some unsecured email server, then to my
> > > server.
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to block this stuff. Something like
> > > "if 
> > > it appears to come from me, but it's not actually coming from my 
> > > email server," block it. I don't necessarily think this is a job
> > > for 
> > > SA, but if there's a rule I can tweak or a setting I can change,
> > > I'm 
> > > all ears.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Thomas
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 

-- 
Robert Senger



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